Belated Two Year Anniversary

I just realized that last month, on Saturday 4 November 2006, this online journal was officially up for two years. Of course, those who actually know me realize that I turned my original LiveJournal account (that I registered way back on 4 January 2001) into this one in November 2004, by deleting all the old non-poker posts and changing the username.

Boy, what a terrible poker player I was when I started this thing. If any of you are inspired to read my old posts, you can see how bad I was. I'm frankly amazed that I was a winning player back then. Indeed, if I was playing in games so soft that even I could win back then, they must have been some soft games indeed! Either that, or I was amazingly lucky.

I'm grateful to all of you, who over the last two years, have helped me become a better player. I am particularly thankful for the River Street gang, who made this journal a central part of the game for a long period from 2004-2005. It sure made the game tougher to come in each week knowing that everyone had read everything I'd been thinking at the previous one, but it certainly improved my game. It's wonderful that, despite River Street being long over, that many of you (frankieriver, Greg, nick_marden, and roryk, for example) are still around commenting every so often, and I know many others still lurk from time to time as well.